SpaceX pulled off a launch-tower catch of Starship's Super Heavy booster during a test flight today (Jan. 16) but lost the vehicle's upper stage.

SpaceX Starship and its Super Heavy booster launching. Watch view of the liftoff in slow motion from a launch tower camera.

SpaceX successfully caught its Super Heavy booster for the second time. During Starship’s 7th test flight from Boca Chica, ...

SpaceX pulled off its “chopsticks” catch of a Super Heavy rocket booster but lost the Starship spacecraft on Thursday during ...

While the Starship is lost, the mission's first-stage booster successfully returned to the launch tower, where it was caught ...

SpaceX sent up its first test flight of the year for its Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Texas catching the booster for ...

SpaceX is also flying rudimentary catch fittings on Starship to test their thermal performance on reentry. The ship will fly a more demanding trajectory during descent to probe the structural limits ...

Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, pulled off a daring booster catch on its most ambitious test flight yet, but ...

A SpaceX Starship prototype failed after a launch from Texas, despite reaching space and attempting to deploy mock satellites. The Super Heavy booster successfully returned to its launchpad, marking ...

The Super Heavy booster of SpaceX's seventh Starship megarocket comes in for a launch-tower catch shortly after lifting off on a test flight on Jan. 16, 2025. | Credit: SpaceX Flight 7 was ...